Report on SONDER - One Day Literary Festival by Anisha Bodapati

On 14^th February, the Quills Literary Club organized SONDER – One Day Literary Festival. The objective of the fest was to enhance entrepreneurship skills among students through literature. Complete with stalls related to literary masterpieces such as bestselling books and popular movies and television series, stalls with original illustrated poetry and stalls that ruffle your creative wings, SONDER did justice to its tagline – “Realise The Lore Within You". Students were encouraged to show their literary knowledge and sell suitable merchandise at a nominal rate. 

The stalls were put up by students of the club with custom decorations and props that added to the grandeur of the Festival. SONDER comprised of not only English literature, but extended  its reach to French literary work too.

Literature is a form of expressing art and goes hand in hand with other forms of expression. The fest included a selfie booth with various props for taking photographs and a sparkly background that made sure the light reflected at all the right angles.

The mask painting stall – “Masked" and The “Feelings Hub" stall encouraged people to put up their emotions on post it notes, made everyone indulge in their literary ideas and helped us explore the slightest of our creative inclinations.

We got to appreciate our peers' poetic and artistic genius through the “Feel my words with an art" stall.

The scary house was a true work of art and dramatic entrances.  With sheer hard work and flawless execution, the scary house was the crowd’s favourite.

All through the festival, music and dance performances entertained the participants and guests. The performances ranged from classical to Rock & Roll and pop music.

The poets of Zephyr, the poetry chapbook, recited their poems from the book.

Students cosplayed their favourite characters from books and movies, and walked the ramp at the end of the festival.

Lastly, this fest wouldn’t have been possible if not for the efforts of our student coordinators Meera Saheba and Tasleem Fatima, and the constant help and support provided by the lecturers.

I thank the Department of English and Foreign Languages for helping us organize this wonderful fest, and look forward to a possible sequel to SONDER.